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Joshua first triggered there might be a better way while watching a documentary about Manny Pacquiao. Floyd Mayweather trains when he is ready. I actually saw He has brought all these people into camp. The only thing that is on his mind is performance and improving. Detention helps some kids turn around their lives, but Rojo continued fighting and wound up back in juvenile court. There, she was given a choice: Either attend VisionQuest, a national organization with a residential program in Tucson that works with the juvenile-justice system, or try a new probation program called Project RISE.
I'm not going to juvie. I'm not going to jail, and I'm not going to do VisionQuest,'" Rojo remembers saying. Rojo and a handful of other kids in trouble were taken out of their schools and put in a set of portable classrooms at Howenstine High School.
Her probation also included an introduction to boxing at a church near Pima Street and Grant Road with Valdez, a former pro fighter. For the past 15 years, Valdez has run a Tucson Youth Corps of America program that aims to decrease violence and gang activity with schools and local law enforcement. But that's not the end of Rojo's story, about how boxing saved the life of a southside girl. While Rojo completed her probation, Valdez did not show her the way to the ring--at least not yet.
After her probation was completed, she lost touch with Valdez--and she continued to get into trouble. She got pregnant at 18 and gave birth to a baby girl she named Zellyanna. But even the birth of her daughter didn't squelch her temper. When she turned 21, her mother told her she needed to stop fighting. She heard about the fights.
Finally she pleaded with me and asked me, 'What can I do to help you? What do you think you need? She wanted to check the classes out, but she was shy about going by herself. They drove straight to the gym. A man on the other side of the gym walked over. Rojo says her mother told him her daughter needed his help. Like Rojo, Valdez says he feels he's been a fighter almost all his life.
Joining the Marines is what set him straight: "I joined up, and I never looked back," Valdez says.
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Valdez remembers the day when Rojo's mother first brought her to the gym. He says that he reminded Rojo that the more she put into boxing, the more she was going to get out of it, and to keep in mind the big difference between fear and respect--the same things he tells other kids that make their way to Old School. Valdez says he's not surprised that Rojo's life changed after coming to Old School. Boxing is a discipline that demands attention, and the gym provides a good alternative to the streets.
We are a family. Rojo says she also discovered the discipline that Valdez was teaching. I don't look to fight anymore.
I avoid it. Everything I had inside me that made me so angry, I brought it here. I released it here.
He said no. Valdez says he always saw a little bit of himself in Rojo, but when she told him she wanted to box and eventually go pro, he thought about his time in the ring as a professional fighter. I was a former professional fighter. Boxing was good for me, but I thought about the possibilities of her face getting smashed in. That's the reality of boxing," Valdez says.
Rojo says she turned to Vincente Medina, a former pro in his mids who works in the gym and trained Valdez during his ascent to the pros. Medina, a Mexican-American fighter with more than pro fights on his record, was once called Arizona's own Rocky Balboa.
Medina opened the gym a little earlier to give Rojo extra time to train, and he took her to her first amateur fight on April 4, She won. I just wanted to train even harder," Rojo says.
I think that was when Chris saw that I was in this all the way. That's when he decided he would train me. I'm in the gym faithfully every day.
You don't have to baby-sit me. He saw that this girl is really determined. The year before Rojo came to Old School, Valdez's year-old daughter died in a car accident. The coincidence that her birthday is March 2, while Rojo's birthday is March 3, isn't lost on Valdez. I want her to start thinking about what she will do after boxing," Valdez says. I check in with her all the time.
I realize I am mentoring a friend. Maybe it's because she reminds me of my daughter. And that's the way I try to treat her--like my own daughter. Her mother comes to most practices, along with Rojo's nowyear-old daughter, who has developed her own set of skills since coming to the gym with Mom: jumping rope. When she waits for me during practice, she jumps ropes. She's so good at it, she jumped rope for her school's talent show," Rojo says about Zellyanna. But it's her support I love most. She calls me her 'champ. I like to watch her fight," she says.
When asked if she thinks she's a fighter, too, Zellyanna shrugs her shoulders and looks off the side to think for a moment before shaking her head no. Zellyanna's grandmother smiles at her granddaughter's answer as she watches her daughter move on the gym floor. Elizabeth Rojo says her daughter and her granddaughter have a lot in common: They're both quiet, a little shy and very smart. She was on the school honor roll for many years, but when she got to the seventh-grade, I remember that was when everything changed.